I know we all hear how great running is for the body, but don’t forget how good walking is as well.

Walking is a lower impact exercise and safer for your joints and a good way to start an exercise routine when you haven’t done so in a long while or ever.

Walking has great benefits for the body.

• Weight control
• Stress relief
• Cardio-vascular fitness–that means good for your heart.
• Helps strengthen bones and muscles
• Improves balance (good posture) and endurance
• Helps manage high blood pressure, high cholesterol, joint pain and stiffness, diabetes

Don’t dismiss walking as an exercise. It takes a comparable amount of energy to a single mile distance, walking or running. Start with short distances, or even short times, and work your way up.

Time yourself, and make a plan to walk farther distances, or the same distance at a faster pace. If you want to get the greatest benefits from walking then Join our Walk/Run Cardio Club that uses the Polar Heart Rate Monitor system to maximize your heart rate and avoid injury.

Another benefit of walking is that it is very repetitive so it will pick up any problems in your joints or spine by the feeling of pain. Pain is a warning sign that something isn’t functioning correctly so great time to schedule time with Dr. Schuler to find out what is subluxated or fixated and how to correct it.

Happy Walking!!!!